Skip the lines in Paris and visit these picturesque towns and villages, where the crowds are fewer and the pace is slower.

FeatureThe 'Handiplage' label, awarded to 150 beaches across France, guarantees people with reduced mobility access to the water and amphibious wheelchairs for swimming. A Tiralo, an amphibious ...

The French Riviera, or Côte d’Azur, holds an undeniable allure, with its picturesque coastline along the very southeastern corner of France offering a stunning variety of beaches. I’ve spent quite a ...

Beaches in southwest France along the Atlantic coast have been shut down after bricks of cocaine and other drugs continue to wash ashore, for weeks now, leaving investigators puzzled over where the ...

Venture to this underrated, windswept beach in Normandy to see D-Day museums, paratrooper memorials, and historic sites where ...

The Navy SEAL Museum in Florida, alongside Virginia Beach firm Clark Nexsen and North Carolina firm Studio X Design, dedicated a D-Day monument park last week at Normandy’s Omaha Beach in France in ...

A small town in Provence is attracting more vacationing families by turning a stretch of sun-drenched Mediterranean seafront into what it calls the first non-smoking beach in France. The smoking ban ...

A cold, raw rain falls, disturbed by winds that occasionally must push 20 knots. It is 58° and the visibility appears to be less than a mile. The American Cemetery here would be impressive in any ...

The ban, published in the official government gazette on Saturday, also applies to bus shelters and areas near libraries, swimming pools and schools. It was introduced one week before the start of ...